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Miscellaneous - approx. 100 18th century and later books, including Butler (Samuel), Hudibras [...],

In Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, includ...

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Miscellaneous - approx. 100 18th century and later books, including Butler (Samuel), Hudibras [...], first edition thus, London: R. Chiswel, J. Tonson, T. Horne, and R. Wellington, 1710, portrait frontispiece, engraved plates, 19th century cloth, small 12mo, (1); Ireland, Morgan (Lady), The Book of the Boudoir, two-volume set, London: Henry Colburn, 1829, original publisher's cloth over board bindings, contemporary draped spade shield armorial bookplates to each pastedown: Rev: Alexander Mahony, [?County Cork], 8vo, (2); The Letters of Pliny the Younger, two-volume set, London: James Bettenham, for Paul Vaillant, 1751, contemporary calf (disbound), 8vo, (2); Dodsley's edition of the same, 1747, disbound, 8vo, (2); Wits Museum, or the New London Jester [...], London: Printed for W. Lane, [n.d., c. 1790], contemporary calf over boards, 12mo, (1); ); The Young Englishwoman/A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Designs, 1871, printed in double-columns, colour and monochrome plates and in-text illustrations, 20th century morocco over decorative cloth-covered boards, 4to, (1); [Gaskell (Elizabeth)], North and South, first Tauchnitz Copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1855, contemporary English quarter-roan over marbled boards, square 8vo, (1); [Wallace (Lady Eglantine)], The Ton; or, Follies of Fashion, lacking all before [A3], but probably the first edition, [?London: T. Hookham, 1788], original wrappers, 4to; another play, Mysteries of the Castle, 1795, disbound, 4to, (1); Peg Woffington; further works on the 18th and 19th century stage; The Good Child's Reward [...], Illustrated by Upwards of One Hundred Engravings, two-volume set, London: Thomas Kelly, 1852, volume 2 plate 1 lacking, contemporary half-calf, 8vo, (2); further children's and juvenile works, mostly didactics; The New Bath Guide, London: Vernor, et al, 1807, calf, 8vo, (1); Diary of the Times of George IV, two-volume set, London: Henry Colburn, 1838, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (2); The Christian Keepsake, 1836, steel engravings, contemporary green morocco binding, 8vo, (1); Baedeker's (3); other travel; further history, literature, devotionals, etc., various bindings and sizes, [approx. 100, 8 boxes]
Miscellaneous - approx. 100 18th century and later books, including Butler (Samuel), Hudibras [...], first edition thus, London: R. Chiswel, J. Tonson, T. Horne, and R. Wellington, 1710, portrait frontispiece, engraved plates, 19th century cloth, small 12mo, (1); Ireland, Morgan (Lady), The Book of the Boudoir, two-volume set, London: Henry Colburn, 1829, original publisher's cloth over board bindings, contemporary draped spade shield armorial bookplates to each pastedown: Rev: Alexander Mahony, [?County Cork], 8vo, (2); The Letters of Pliny the Younger, two-volume set, London: James Bettenham, for Paul Vaillant, 1751, contemporary calf (disbound), 8vo, (2); Dodsley's edition of the same, 1747, disbound, 8vo, (2); Wits Museum, or the New London Jester [...], London: Printed for W. Lane, [n.d., c. 1790], contemporary calf over boards, 12mo, (1); ); The Young Englishwoman/A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Designs, 1871, printed in double-columns, colour and monochrome plates and in-text illustrations, 20th century morocco over decorative cloth-covered boards, 4to, (1); [Gaskell (Elizabeth)], North and South, first Tauchnitz Copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1855, contemporary English quarter-roan over marbled boards, square 8vo, (1); [Wallace (Lady Eglantine)], The Ton; or, Follies of Fashion, lacking all before [A3], but probably the first edition, [?London: T. Hookham, 1788], original wrappers, 4to; another play, Mysteries of the Castle, 1795, disbound, 4to, (1); Peg Woffington; further works on the 18th and 19th century stage; The Good Child's Reward [...], Illustrated by Upwards of One Hundred Engravings, two-volume set, London: Thomas Kelly, 1852, volume 2 plate 1 lacking, contemporary half-calf, 8vo, (2); further children's and juvenile works, mostly didactics; The New Bath Guide, London: Vernor, et al, 1807, calf, 8vo, (1); Diary of the Times of George IV, two-volume set, London: Henry Colburn, 1838, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (2); The Christian Keepsake, 1836, steel engravings, contemporary green morocco binding, 8vo, (1); Baedeker's (3); other travel; further history, literature, devotionals, etc., various bindings and sizes, [approx. 100, 8 boxes]

Books, Manuscripts, and Works on Paper, including Portions Removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire

Sale Date(s)
Lots: 3000 - end
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The Derby Auction House
Chequers Road
Derby
Derbyshire
DE21 6EN
United Kingdom

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